House of a winegrower: dynamic constructions in Blaufränkisch country

摘要

New life in the villages. Where, as many families left their old houses in the village centre, the threat of depopulation was often very real, a zone of hope has now been made. In the villages of Eastern Austria structural change in the field of building takes place at a number of levels. On the one hand there is the classic flight from the land due to shortage of jobs, which causes entire village cores to decay. On the other the small old houses in the village centre no longer offer suitable economic structures for those businesses that continue to work the land here successfully and they therefore erect new, larger and more efficient units outside the centre. Then there is a kind of reverse process, the renovation of abandoned old houses by retired persons from nearby big towns who are looking for peace and quiet. And there is a sustainable, settled kind of change: the new use of old buildings by their old owners.